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Place at Table for All

Your April 24 news article on the tricks people use to get tables at the best restaurants in New York City reveals your acceptance of inequity. You report that a man reserved a table under the name Bill Cosby. The diner was not the famous comedian, but the name on his credit card was William Cosby.

You conclude that ''some impersonators have a right to the names they use, though perhaps not the tables they command.'' Why doesn't someone -- regardless of race, color, creed or celebrity -- have a right to the best available table when he or she makes a reservation? More important, when the news media cover the distribution of plums in our society, why are issues of equality and meritocracy rendered invisible? Such choices make it easier for our country to ignore ''liberty and justice for all.''